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ARTICLE · 13 JANUARY 2020

Quarterly Update | PE & VC – December 2019

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The Ministry of Finance on October 17, 2019 issued the Foreign Exchange Management (Non-Debt Instruments) Rules, 2019 (the Non-Debt Instruments Rules) and the Reserve Bank of India issued the ...

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DEAL STATISTICS

LATEST TRENDS

  1. Value of Buyout transactions more than doubled (USD 5.1 billion) during Q3'19.
  2. Drastic drop in the number of deals in the range USD 0-5 million (65 v 104 in Q3'18).
  3. The median investment size doubled to USD 9.9 Million (USD 5 million in Q3'18). The average median investment size over the previous five quarters was USD 5 million.
  4. The value of PIPE transactions fell to its lowest of the last five quarters (USD 400 million), one-third of Q3'18 (USD 1.3 billion).
  5. VC investment volume hit the sub-100 figure for the first time since 2015.
  6. Mumbai took the top city spot as investments in Bangalore slumped by 60%.
  7. At 45 deals, new company investments hit 5-year low.

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